INTERNET FILTERING

Filtering Facts burt at northwest.com
Tue Jun 23 21:54:17 EDT 1998


 Michael H. Aldrich wrote:

>> David Burt wrote:
>> Yes, it's about how a group of activists apparently de-crypted WebSense's
>> stoplist of 270,000 sites and found 11 bad blocks, or .004%  From this these
>> guys conclude that WebSense's practices "profound negligence illustrated by
>> the numerous bad blocks included in the product's blacklist."
>> 
>> 
>
>Actually, according to the first paragraph of the article, the word
>"dozens" is used, and later in the article is discussion of "several
>hundred" miscatagorized sites.
>

If you read the actual report at www.spectacle.org/cwp/liza.html, it list
only 11 sites.  I know these guys and how they operate.  If they had
hundreds of sites, they would have listed them. 

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